Vbulletin World Map System

Vbulletin World Map Plotting System
Show Your Guest/Members From All Over The World !!!

Summary:

The core of this system I developed approximately 3 years ago but was unable to practically distribute it on vborg due to the fact the GEOIP City Database was a very expensive software product; and it is needed to map IP Addresses to Global Lat/Lon Coordinates.

With the recent availability of a "Lite" version of the City Database I have decided to build from the ground up a new hack that utilizes it to display 2 map structures.

1. Plots Your Current Members/Guest Online available on the Whos Online Page.
2. Plots Your Registered Members last known Coordinates on the Member List Page.
3. Coordinates are calculated from IP Addresses stored in your Forums Database.

Features:

• Automatic & Accurate plotting of your Guest & Members on the WorldMap.
• WorldMap Page to view Both Maps, added to your navbar.
• Enable WOL, Member Plotting Independently
• Control Panel Options
• Specify Plotting Image Type, Size, Color
• Specify Opaque, Alpha Transparency
• Support for Payed Full Version of City Database
• Updates on Scheduled Task Interval
• Map is shown small and expands on Mouseover, then contracts back.

Instructions:

1. Download Zip File
2. Read INSTALL.TXT
3. Run the crontask manually the first time, so it will generate your images.
4. Click Install if you like it

Updates:
3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.
3/12/2006 12:54pm -
1. Added a new Realistic World map
2. Configuration Editor partially remade, allows easier selection of Maps.
3/8/2006 11:35pm - Added a worldmap.php Page, for viewing both maps.
3/8/2006 9:52am - Fixed the jpeg output problem.

Note:

The GEOIP Binary Database can be located here:

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoi...iteCity.dat.gz

[Serial Killer]

If I bought the pro version of the GeoCity database, could I just use that instead of the lite version?

[Serial Killer]

ReadOrDie. Follow...these...instructions.

See that little folder icon under the "download" on the right hand side of the screen? Click on it. Then click save. Then click desktop. This will save the zip to your desktop. Double click the downloaded folder. Extract to desktop. The "read me" txt will point you in the right direction.

Now to the hack. It's a nice idea. but it is rather pointless. Even the super-expensive version is only approx 75% accurate, so what's the point? I would rather allocate this hack's space on my vBulletin to something like FlashChat.

This hack is a gimmick.

*clicks install* hee hee

[Phalynx]

Its a gimmick, but it's a nice looking gimmick
http://www.insidetwoworlds.de/worldmap.php

BTW, are there plans to do a more detailed Map espacially for a single country, like Germany. Or continents like Europe/America?

[Snatch]

I deinstalled the old version and now I installed the new.

I uploaded all the Files but the Cron sayes:

World Map Plotter

Map Image Not Found.

These files are in the maps dir:
world.png
world_alpha.png
world_color.png
world_real.jpg

Plz help.

GreeTz
Snatch

[Serial Killer]

Hmmm...This is strange. Doesn't matter what i do in the options, it doesn't seem to affect how the hack operates. For example, I try to change the marker to a diamond, but it stays as a cross. And even the templates don't change!

Also, how do you prevent the map from expanding when you place the mouse over it?

[Serial Killer]

Doh...I forgot that it takes a few mins for the changes to take affect.

Nice hack. I'll be voting for this as hack of the month. It used to be v3 arcade, but not anymore

[Andy R]

I have purchased the full version of GeoIPCity from Maxmind for my ad targeting using phpadsnew. Can I run this off the full distrobution? They say there is better coverage, do you know if that is correct?

[DementedMindz]

no clue why people keep asking questions i dont think hes going to answer... he hasent answered a question since 25. Mar 2006, 22:40

[user02934123123]

Dear all,

Could anyone offer some assistance in decompressing this downloaded file as per step 5 in the hack instructions?

I've downloaded the GeoLiteCity.dat.gz file from http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity, and uploaded it to my server; no problems thus far. However, when attempting to decompress the .sz file from the SSH command line with tar -xvfz GeoLiteCity.dat.gz, I receive various tar errors.

For those of you who have had success with the file/install, how did you decompress the file? Am I using incorrect flags for the untarring?

With thanks in advance.

[DementedMindz]

i would just unzip it and upload it via ftp this way you dont get the errors...